Is this sort of ethical collectivism – whereby those living today share guilt for the past crimes of those they belong to by dint of their nation, race and so on – just, or productive?
The commission errs egregiously, however, in insisting that the deficiencies that led to the Macondo blowout were "systemic," which suggests that several hundred exploration and production firms and related service companies share guilt for this disaster.
What has been visible since then is a more familiar Mladic, arrogant and demanding, insisting not only on his own innocence but on the shared guilt of all of the Serbian people.
Mladic, who has refused to recognise the authority of the war crimes tribunal in The Hague, denied being a killer, adding that all Serbs bore a shared guilt for voting for President Slobodan Milosevic, the architect of the Balkan wars.
The movie contradicts two of the central ideas of "Eichmann in Jerusalem": it reveals Adolf Eichmann to have been an anti-Semitic ideologue, not a dispassionate bureaucrat, and it presents Jews who worked with the Jewish Councils under direction from Nazi authorities not as collaborators who shared guilt with the Nazis but as tragic heroes.
Mladic, who has refused to recognise the authority of the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, where he is expected to be extradited to this week on charges of genocide, also denied being a killer, adding that all Serbs bore a shared guilt for voting for President Slobodan Milosevic, architect of the Balkan wars.
Emphasizing the shared guilt of citizens has implications for a further issue, concerned with how the dirty hands perpetrator should be treated after the event.
"There is a little bit of shared guilt, because I knew better," Thomson said on an August afternoon at his home, just a stone's throw from the rail yard.
"For me there's no question that I share moral guilt.
Under the latest, military-imposed constitution, party executives share collective guilt for any wrongdoing.
On the last day they met, Stangl, speaking of the Holocaust, told her, "In reality I share the guilt".
